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As a little girl I didn’t know about anything queer. It seemed like my parents made sure that I was sheltered from all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people. It could be that their lives were so sheltered from LGBT people that they didn’t know anyone out of the …

I am, at heart, a storyteller. Nevermind that I’m in law school, or that I’ve never finished a document I’d refer to as a story, but only fits and starts, bits and fragments. I tell stories because if I didn’t, I would cease to be. The funny thing, the thing …

“To Robert finding a guy,” my friend Klara* toasts me right before downing a shot of Bacardi 151. She and three other girls were forcing me to go gay clubbing in West Hollywood tonight because I don’t get out enough and I’m a good catch and I always complain about …

After moving to West Hollywood, CA it had become apparent that there was a weekly tradition of Sunday/FunDays and I wanted so badly for my visiting San Diego boys to partake. The group of us started with margaritas in my complex’s pool around noon and after getting sun tired and …

I have three fears in my life. First, I am scared of many insects, but spiders especially. Tiny or giant – they all scare me. I try not to let it show when I encounter one, but I will admit to screaming like a little girl when I come upon …

Perhaps I should have known when I first identified with my community – in seventh grade. My lesbian french teacher became pregnant with her first child. As a child of San Francisco, I thought nothing of it. A few weeks after Mme G’s announcement, I overheard my mother speculating with …

I was cracked. Torn down. Torn up. It had everything to do with a recent break-up. My first really. The first time I could actually say that I had a boyfriend and that using “we” when referring to him and me was no longer making any sense. I had just …